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...need one new shuttle. We need three or four. The nation's sharpest aerospace analyst, First Boston's Wolfgang Demisch, suggests that a single shuttle will build us right back into the mess we are trying to climb out of. A fleet of four shuttles (three current, one new) will have to work perfectly to meet our needs. "It's like the Soviet economy," says Demisch. "If everything works 100%, it is fine. It never does. When one part fails, the whole system fails. We need a realistic program. We are approaching a national emergency. We are re-creating...
Bastille Day is traditionally a day for the French to put aside their % differences. But no sooner had Socialist President Francois Mitterrand and conservative Premier Jacques Chirac finished their review of the military parade at the Place de la Concorde last week than Mitterrand issued the sharpest challenge yet to the conservative government with which he has uneasily shared power since March...
...first job in the India Office in 1906, his lowest score was in economics. Even after he returned to Cambridge as a don and took to editing the Economic Journal, he was most comfortable among the aesthetes of Bloomsbury. Philosopher Bertrand Russell once referred to Keynes' intellect as "the sharpest and clearest that I have ever known...
...Crimson offense, particularly quarterback Brian White, who struggled against the Lions, will have to be at its sharpest against the fearsome Minutemen defense. Look for Restic to try to use his quickness (fullback Robert Santiago and halfback Rufus Jones) and his guile (complicated Multiflex plays and formations), rather than the strength of his fledgling offensive line to try to get by UMass...
...remain mild. They noted that labor costs, which make up some 65% of the retail value of most products, are continuing to rise at a modest pace. Raw material prices are also stable. The Labor Department reported last week that in August the Producer Price Index fell .3%, the sharpest decline in more than two years. Said Greenspan: "Overall, there is just no evidence of any acceleration of inflation...